.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 309 125
Rank change year-on-year +50 -184 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 599 390 1,950
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 0.99% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 5.00% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 572 329 1,809
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £38,084
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,875 £102,900 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,611 7,804 17,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.45% 19.85% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,553 5,236 14,550
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,434 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +10.72% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,075
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -2 140 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South East +47 128 £55,000 +10.00% 45
London -79 89 £85,000 +6.25% 51
Midlands +29 88 £55,000 -8.33% 20
East of England +45 79 £65,000 +18.18% 18
North West +24 74 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South West -20 70 £52,500 -12.50% 14
East Midlands +1 45 £55,000 +4.76% 10
North East -6 44 £65,000 +44.44% 13
West Midlands -7 43 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Yorkshire -48 22 £55,000 -8.33% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.34%) IIS
3 5 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) DNN
5 1 (0.17%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.17%) Immediacy CMS
5 1 (0.17%) Kentico
5 1 (0.17%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Magento
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 439 (73.29%) Azure
2 134 (22.37%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (15.53%) AWS
4 81 (13.52%) GitHub
5 70 (11.69%) Azure AI
6 66 (11.02%) GitHub Copilot
7 51 (8.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 46 (7.68%) SaaS
9 41 (6.84%) Power Platform
10 39 (6.51%) Serverless
11 38 (6.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 25 (4.17%) Power Automate
12 25 (4.17%) PowerApps
13 24 (4.01%) Azure Functions
13 24 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (3.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (3.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.51%) Internet
2 5 (0.83%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.33%) Firewall
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) Modbus
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (42.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 198 (33.06%) MongoDB
3 146 (24.37%) SQL Server
4 76 (12.69%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.68%) Power BI
6 15 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.34%) MySQL
8 9 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.00%) Redis
11 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.83%) GIS
11 5 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.84%) Git
2 9 (1.50%) JIRA
3 7 (1.17%) GitLab
4 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.50%) Vite
6 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.33%) NUnit
6 2 (0.33%) webpack
7 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
7 1 (0.17%) MSTest
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 86 (14.36%) Finance
2 49 (8.18%) Social Skills
3 29 (4.84%) Games
4 27 (4.51%) Advertising
5 21 (3.51%) Retail
6 20 (3.34%) Marketing
7 18 (3.01%) Banking
8 11 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.50%) Automotive
10 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.34%) Front Office
10 8 (1.34%) Law
11 6 (1.00%) Legal
11 6 (1.00%) Music Industry
12 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.83%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.67%) Back Office
13 4 (0.67%) Electronics
14 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 476 (79.47%) Developer
2 330 (55.09%) .NET Developer
3 108 (18.03%) Senior
4 105 (17.53%) Software Developer
5 64 (10.68%) Senior Developer
6 63 (10.52%) C# Developer
7 53 (8.85%) C# .NET Developer
8 49 (8.18%) Lead
9 48 (8.01%) Software Engineer
10 47 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 30 (5.01%) Lead Developer
11 30 (5.01%) Senior Software Developer
12 27 (4.51%) .NET Software Developer
13 26 (4.34%) .NET Software Engineer
14 23 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (3.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 20 (3.34%) Azure Developer
16 20 (3.34%) C# Software Developer
17 19 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 18 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (100.00%) .NET
2 313 (52.25%) ASP.NET
3 246 (41.07%) ASP.NET Core
4 147 (24.54%) React
5 139 (23.21%) Entity Framework
6 138 (23.04%) HTML
7 136 (22.70%) CSS
8 126 (21.04%) Blazor
9 117 (19.53%) RESTful
10 113 (18.86%) Vue
11 109 (18.20%) AngularJS
12 103 (17.20%) .NET Framework
13 102 (17.03%) ASP.NET Web API
14 92 (15.36%) Node.js
15 70 (11.69%) ML.NET
16 63 (10.52%) LINQ
17 47 (7.85%) REST
18 40 (6.68%) JSON
19 21 (3.51%) Microsoft Graph
20 20 (3.34%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.18%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.17%) Hedge funds
4 13 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 11 (1.84%) Digital TV
5 11 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.84%) Sports Betting
6 10 (1.67%) iPhone
6 10 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.50%) Social Network
8 7 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.00%) BBC
9 6 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.00%) Social Media
10 5 (0.83%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.00%) VMS
2 10 (1.67%) Android
3 8 (1.34%) Windows
4 4 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (55.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 266 (44.41%) Agile
3 181 (30.22%) CI/CD
4 164 (27.38%) DevOps
5 125 (20.87%) Microservices
6 95 (15.86%) AI
7 92 (15.36%) Software Engineering
8 90 (15.03%) Machine Learning
9 89 (14.86%) Multithreading
10 61 (10.18%) OO
11 53 (8.85%) SDLC
12 52 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (8.01%) Analytics
14 47 (7.85%) User Experience
15 46 (7.68%) Containerisation
15 46 (7.68%) TDD
16 45 (7.51%) Scrum
17 41 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (6.84%) MVC
18 37 (6.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 554 (92.49%) C#
2 358 (59.77%) SQL
3 175 (29.22%) JavaScript
4 148 (24.71%) TypeScript
5 36 (6.01%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.17%) Python
7 11 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.67%) Bash
10 4 (0.67%) Java
10 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.50%) PHP
11 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) F#
Qualifications
1 39 (6.51%) Degree
2 19 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (0.83%) AWS Certification
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (0.83%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.17%) QA
2 13 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.33%) GDPR
3 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.33%) ITGC
3 2 (0.33%) SLA
3 2 (0.33%) WCAG
4 1 (0.17%) NCSC
4 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 129 (21.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 122 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 323 (53.92%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.34%) Facebook
3 24 (4.01%) Google
4 19 (3.17%) Adobe
5 11 (1.84%) YouTube
6 6 (1.00%) Apple
6 6 (1.00%) Sony
6 6 (1.00%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.67%) Workday
8 3 (0.50%) Splunk
9 2 (0.33%) Foundry
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle
9 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.33%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.17%) Alterian
10 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.17%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.17%) Reuters